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“Time” word problems
1. Would you rather have your PE lesson for one hour 10 minutes or 80 minutes? Explain why.
2. It is 9 weeks and 2 days to your classmates birthday party. How many days do you have to wait for the birthday party?
3. You're going on an excursion to Elizabeth Farm and need to arrive 20 minutes before the bus leaves. It takes you 15 minutes to walk to school. The bus is leaving at 8:30am. What time do you need to leave home so that you don't miss the bus?
4. You're having a race on your bike with a friend. The race starts at 11:30am. Your friend finishes at 1:05pm and you finish 6 minutes earlier. Calculate the time you and your friend were cycling.
5. It took you 5 minutes and 12 seconds to swim 10 laps of an Olympic swimming pool. How many seconds were you in the water for? Approximately how long did it take you to swim each lap?
6. You're going on a holiday to Fiji. You arrive in Fiji at 3:20pm Australian time. If the flight from Australia takes 5 hours and 5 minutes, what time did you take off from Australia?
7. You play for 30 hours a week. List some possible times for your play routine. How many minutes in a week do you spend not playing?
8. Add up the total amount of sleep you get each week. Predict how much sleep you will get tomorrow night and why?
9. Write a time problem that involves the following times 8am, 1 hour 20 minutes.
FractionsNeed to revise and extend your thinking about fractions? Try this siteFraction help
“Time” word problems
1. Would you rather have your PE lesson for one hour 10 minutes or 80 minutes? Explain why.
2. It is 9 weeks and 2 days to your classmates birthday party. How many days do you have to wait for the birthday party?
3. You're going on an excursion to Elizabeth Farm and need to arrive 20 minutes before the bus leaves. It takes you 15 minutes to walk to school. The bus is leaving at 8:30am. What time do you need to leave home so that you don't miss the bus?
4. You're having a race on your bike with a friend. The race starts at 11:30am. Your friend finishes at 1:05pm and you finish 6 minutes earlier. Calculate the time you and your friend were cycling.
5. It took you 5 minutes and 12 seconds to swim 10 laps of an Olympic swimming pool. How many seconds were you in the water for? Approximately how long did it take you to swim each lap?
6. You're going on a holiday to Fiji. You arrive in Fiji at 3:20pm Australian time. If the flight from Australia takes 5 hours and 5 minutes, what time did you take off from Australia?
7. You play for 30 hours a week. List some possible times for your play routine. How many minutes in a week do you spend not playing?
8. Add up the total amount of sleep you get each week. Predict how much sleep you will get tomorrow night and why?
9. Write a time problem that involves the following times 8am, 1 hour 20 minutes.